Republicans are going to celebrate American pride on the Fourth of July as they always do, while Democrats are ready to protest and riot.

Buy Photo This year marks the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill, or, more accurately, Breed's Hill, ...

Napoleon Sarony, “The Declaration of Independence,” 1843–1853. Harry T. Peters, “America on Stone.” Lithography Collection. Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History This hand-colored ...

Robert Kaplan’s latest book on big geopolitical questions reflects a shift away from high-minded ideals in US establishment thought. But instead of self-critical pragmatism, what he offers as a ...

One reason for this shift is that Iran’s elite fears it is in a struggle to preserve the country’s political system.

John Adams believed the American Revolution was a radical shift in the principles, opinions, and affections of the American people. Gordon Wood, a historian, emphasizes the Revolution's impact on ...

Legendary documentary filmmaker Ken Burns once called the Civil War "the most important event in American history," because it's "an unbelievable guide to who we are." The Revolutionary War is ...

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, the revered Kenyan man of letters and voice of dissent who in dozens of fiction and nonfiction books traced his country's history from British imperialism to home-ruled ...

Today’s overtly political and unapologetically pro-Trump Eric Metaxas was once a winsome voice in New York City’s evangelical intellectual renaissance.

BRIAN HOWEY: "Since Georgi Vins was with me, the parallel between this lesson and his persecution in the Soviet Union was remarkable,” Carter wrote in his 2010 book, “White House ...

Frontier and revolution. History professor Paul Musselwhite described the Upper Valley as a “very strange corner of the American Revolution.” The Upper Valley was considered a frontier, only recently ...